Metalheads have always found transcendence, exultation, and deliverance in music’s heaviest genre where everyone else has heard noise. Sometimes you need to feel like the sound coming out of your ...

2026 is here — and already, it’s shaping up to be a big year for music. Artists like A$AP Rocky, Megan Moroney, and Hilary Duff are kicking things off with a bang ...

Here are the 11 best thrash albums of 2025. Thrash has not historically been known for its willingness to reinvent the wheel — when James Hetfield famously sang "full speed or nothing" on Metallica's ...

Looking back on 2025, the general consensus seems to be that it was a helluva year—both globally and closer to home. Fires in Los Angeles, wars in Gaza and Ukraine, ICE raids, and the daily barrage of ...

Every new year brings the same question for music fans: what’s next? After a year that brought about some amazing albums, it reminded listeners that great art still rises to the top, even within an ...

While 2024 saw one particular electric green-hued album dominate the cultural zeitgeist since its mid-summer release, 2025 was more of a collective effort. This year’s most influential albums ...

Take a walk down memory lane — and try to quell your disbelief — with the following list of 40 classic rock and metal albums turning 40 in 2026. Nineteen eighty-six was a great time to be an ...

This year was probably the most Britpop year since 1995 — the banner year that gave us Different Class, A Northern Soul, I Should Coco, (What’s the Story?) Morning Glory, and more. The biggest news ...

From an unexpected and addicting country debut to the buzzy second act of an established pop star, these are some of our favorite albums of 2025. By Ethan Millman, Nicole Fell Too often in covering ...

The Acacia Strain – You Are Safe From God Here (Rise) For me, the best death metal feels like a location, a literal spatial world made accessible through music. There’s something about Ego Dissolution ...

Man, 2025 was one hell of a year for metal. Over the course of one rotation around the sun, we’ve seen legends calling it quits and new acts breaking out onto the scene, we’ve had long-defunct bands ...

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA – MAY 3: Lorde performs in concert at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco, Calif., on Tuesday, May 3, 2022. (Ray Chavez/Bay Area News Group) It was a year of ...